Ellen Barkin Quotes
Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.
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I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.
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I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.
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I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.
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Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.
